Calumny! Slander! Liars Whose Pants Are Full of Poop!

The latest meme being spread by the counterrevolutionary Nielsen Hayden cabal is that the Sad Puppies Revolutionary Vanguard Party chose to overlook Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem because the author is Chinese.

Let me be clear: This is absolutely false.

We chose to overlook it because the author is a Communist.

China is a country without free expression, where books are published and given literary awards based upon how faithfully the author hews to the political ideology of the ruling clique. This is the complete opposite of everything the Sad Puppies stand for. We cannot in good conscience allow an author who rose out of such an environment to be nominated for a Hugo.

It's quite sad, really. Once upon a time the American science fiction community recognized the evils of Communism and fought against it. The first -- and for a long time only -- author ever expelled from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America was the pinko Commie Stanislaw Lem. But that was back in the days when the community was still sensible, and authors like LeGuin and Delany, who wished to taint us with their literary conceits, were on the margin. Now, with the Nielsen Hayden coterie in charge of everything, they're willing to bring the Ban Hammer down on people like our comrade Vox Day for making a couple innocuous comments. Sic transit glorius mundi!